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>Well, between a run of the mill programmer who happens to indent where he/she should vs Norvig, I will likely choose the latter If I could. Right. >Reminds me of that blog thread where this design pattern guru hemmed and hawed from his high horse I read a similar story a while ago. Two programmers are given the task of writing a program for some non-trivial problem. One of them, Hoity Toity Harry, tries to apply man…
Speaking of which, I once saw a user review of Norvig's book PAIP complaining about the unsophisticated code -- no monads, etc. (I forget what other patterns the reviewer wanted to see.)
Ha ha, good one. I wonder if the reviewer knew who Norvig is.